While many people enjoy birding to witness the intrinsic beauty of each species, it's a bird’s behavior and its similiarities to humans that draw many birders to study and learn about them, says ...

Arizona offers some of the very best bird watching in the United States. Blame it on our remarkable diversity. Soaring mountains, warm deserts, deep canyons and rolling grasslands provide welcoming ...

Arizona's Sky Islands are known around the world as a birding mecca. Birders who visit the southeastern part of the state can find species such as the violet-crowned hummingbird, Montezuma quail and ...

Arizona is a hummingbird hotspot. People travel far and wide to see these tiny lustrous birds. There are at least a dozen species of hummingbirds in Arizona, the greatest variety of any state. You can ...

Last week I guided a store-sponsored bird walk to Yarnell and Congress. Our route took us directly through Peeples Valley, so ...

Arizona currently has no confirmed human cases of bird flu, although two Pinal County workers were exposed through infected ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN — Birding has brought in about $300 million in economic impact according to a study by the Tucson Audubon Society. Additionally, the study found that the industry supports about ...

The destinations in the U.S. that get birders excited aren’t necessarily the places that other vacationers are flocking: The border city of McAllen near the southern tip of Texas sits on a major ...

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ALMOST or quite the brightest bird that I saw in Arizona — the Arizona cardinal, well named superbus, being a doubtful exception — was the vermilion flycatcher. I had heard of it as sometimes ...